It truly was a balancing act trying to appear normal while explaining the concept of state-sponsored censorship. Did Lynch believe nobody there had ever read 1984?
Read: Spare me the therapeutic platitudes
The Queen Censor spoke to the Select Committee with the same weirdly fixed smile on her face for the full hour. Presumably she fancies this makes her look friendly and reassuring, although movie buffs may find it alarmingly reminiscent of the guy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers who tells you in the evenly modulated voice that the process is completely painless and you won’t feel a thing.
Honestly, witnessing Lynch’s testimony before the committee, I’d swear the temperature in the room must have dropped whenever she opened her mouth to share her vision of a “harmonious society” free from hate, ensuring a “right to dignity” for all — brrr…
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“Balancing act’? Is that what he calls it? I see it as more of a desparate-hold-onto-my-plush-sinecure-at-all-costs butt covering exercise – and it is an ample over-stuffed public trough fed butt to be covered
Actually I think J-Ly herself mentioned that it’s her job to “balance competing rights” — like the REAL right of free speech with their phony-baloney made-up rights like the “right to dignity.” WTF is that???
I don’t have a lot of hope that Section 13 will ever be repealed, and I don’t much care. To hell with the lot of them.
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